WATCH: Federer and Nadal interview each other

When given the chance to interview his rival and friend at this year’s Laver Cup, Roger Federer had one simple question for Rafael Nadal, “Were you nervous playing me for the first time in Miami?”

“I was more excited than nervous,” Nadal said. “I had nothing to lose and everything to win.”

For those that don’t remember their first-ever meeting, a 17-year-old Nadal dismantled the then-No. 1-ranked Federer 6-3, 6-3 in just over an hour. The commentators post-match remarks may give you goosebumps: “A quite astonishing win by a young man whose progress is so fast, so rapid, that one wonders where it will all end.”

Amazingly for the sport and its fans, it hasn’t ended yet.

Federer is on his way to the ATP Masters 1000 in Shanghai, while Nadal is resting a left wrist injury.